26 Jul, 2012

Chris Feather: Black to Play

I’d like to announce that an excellent book, that might be called h#-Bible, BLACK TO PLAY(originally published in 1994 by Friedrich Chlubna, correction of 2012)by the world known expert of this genre Chris Feather is available from now at Julia’sFairies. Click on the image below to see the whole book (85 pages available for online reading or download):

Updates as of 23-25.Jul /2012:

(25.07) It’s nice to see again at the site 2 authors – S. K. Balasubramanian and Pierre Tritten – with their joint problem – No.57, PAGE-21.

(24.07) 4 new problems are added today! I’m very happy to welcome at the site Václav Kotěšovec and Dieter Müller! And thankful to Peter Harris, who continue to support the site! Please see a very interesting problems: No.53 & No.54 by V.Kotěšovec (PAGE-20), No.55 by P.Harris and No.56 by D.Müller (PAGE-21).

(23.07) Welcome to the new author at the site – Valerio Agostini, Italy! See 2 problems by Mr.Agostini – No.51 & No.52 – on PAGE-20! Thank you for participating in the tourney and in this section!

(23.07) One more new problem by Peter Harris is added to PAGE-19. See No.50! – I’m very pleased to see this number! Thanks a lot to Mr.Harris and to all of you!!

The main page of Original problems section contains a list of all published problems now.

I’m happy to announce an Informal Tourneyfor Fairy Problems published in Julia’s Fairiesweb-site in 2012!

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The judge for 2012: N.Shankar Ram – International Master of FIDE, famous Indian composer with more than 40 problems in FIDE Albums, twice placed First in the WCCT Fairy section – the 3rd and 4th WCCT.

Some more information I’ve got from Shankar: 51 years old, born and lives in Bangalore (India), qualified as mechanical engineer, works in I.T. and automation area of a manufacturing company, married for 15 years, has a son of 12. Other interests: computers, music (old indian film songs, western classical, computer generated), interactive fiction, science fiction, rubik’s cube, psychology, philosophy and general reading.

Please send your entries to Julia’s Fairies editor, Julia Vysotska, e-mail: julia@juliasfairies.com same as you’ve sent before for publishing in the site. Already published problems will participate in the tourney as well as the new entries.

Updates as of 20-22.Jul /2012:

(22.07) My own new problem is added to PAGE-19– No.49, Anti-Andernach this time.

(20.07) For SOLVERS! Two new problems by Peter Harris are added to PAGE-19. Author believes that the problems should be SOLVED first, and then analyzed. See No.47 and No.48. After conversations with Mr.Harris I’ve tried to add a possibility to show or hide the solution. It is added to PAGE-19 and PAGE-15 for now for testing.

(20-21.07) I’m trying to add a possibility for visitors to edit comments. Also, have changed a list of Recent comments. Have some problems with avatars there – visitors’ photos sometimes are visible and sometimes not. Will test all comments-related things.. Please let me know if something goes wrong! Sorry for inconvenience!

Updates as of 10-18.Jul /2012:

(18.07) It’s the first time when I had 3 new problems! to publish in one evening. Warm welcome to the new authors at site – Karol Mlynka (Slovakia) and Kenneth Solja (Finland)! See new problems at PAGE-18: No.44 – Karol Mlynka, No.45 – Kenneth Solja, No.46 – Peter Harris.

(17.07) For SOLVERS! One more problem by Peter Harris is added to PAGE-18. Author would like you to SOLVE his No.43! Please try!! I’m grateful to Mr.Harris for his activity!

(16.07) Fairy innovations by Zoran Janev are added to PAGE-17 with No.41,42. Thanks a lot to the author for sharing his ideas!

(11.07) The separate Tourneys section is created for the tourneys announced by Julia’sFairies and also for the other, external tourneys.

10-Jul-2012My site is 3 months old today!!!

For these 3 months the site is visited by 1238 people from 65 countries. Thank for for coming! Thanks to those, who comes again! I’ll try to do my best to make this site useful and interesting to all of you! And, please, leave your comments for me to know what might be useful to add!

09 Jul, 2012

Happy birthday to Iļja Ketris!

Today is Iļja Ketris’s birthday – Latvian composer, author of Ankona (www.ankona.ch) project, and the one who has shown me Chess Composition! Who knows Iļja or who uses Ankona – please drop him a note!